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Nuclear science and techniques like gamma irradiation and mutation breeding are important for developing rice varieties suitable for the Philippines' climate and weather. Mutation breeding uses chemical or physical mutagens like gamma radiation to induce mutations in crop plants, producing new varieties with desirable traits for farmers like increased yield, disease resistance, and tolerance to drought or flooding. The Philippines has successfully used mutation breeding to develop improved varieties of rice and banana that provide higher yields and incomes for farmers without being genetically modified.

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Nuclear science and techniques like gamma irradiation and mutation breeding are important for developing rice varieties suitable for the Philippines' climate and weather. Mutation breeding uses chemical or physical mutagens like gamma radiation to induce mutations in crop plants, producing new varieties with desirable traits for farmers like increased yield, disease resistance, and tolerance to drought or flooding. The Philippines has successfully used mutation breeding to develop improved varieties of rice and banana that provide higher yields and incomes for farmers without being genetically modified.

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Have you heard the news?

Not just about the covid 19 pandemic…


but
A global food crisis.
I am Vick Andrei Pamor of Cararayan
National High School and this is
SIYENSIKULA.
Ang Pelikulang may Siyensya!
As a Filipino, rice is considered as staple
food. Unfortunately, without nuclear
science, we can’t have our daily cup of
rice.
Without gamma irradiation and mutation
breeding, it would be hard to produce a
variety that’s suitable crops to our
country’s weather.
Harnessing the power of the atom to help
improve the country's agricultural
productivity.
Plant mutation breeding is a
nonconventional method of developing
new or improved varieties of crop plants
using chemical or physical agents that
induce mutations. A mutation is any
sudden change in characteristic of the
plant that is passed on from generation to
generation, whether by seed propagation
or by vegetative means producing plant
varieties with desirable genotypes and
phenotypes for specific purposes in a
way it's like accelerated evolution. The
particular plant is called a mutant.

So, how is it done?


Its by using mutagens. Mutagens are
physical or chemical agents that may
start errors in a plant's DNA. Desirable
and undesirable mutants can be produced
by subjecting an appropriate planting
material to a certain dose level of gamma
radiation.

Gamma ray is a form of electromagnetic


radiation similar to X-ray, light and radio
waves but in a different part of the
spectrum.

It has the shortest wavelength so it


possesses more energy per unit of
electromagnetic radiation than X-rays. It
can penetrate even lead but not a 1-meter
thick concrete. It may present health
hazard to human beings by killing living
cells, a fact that is used in medicine for
killing cancerous cells and treatment of
cancer.

In crops and vegetables, a deviation from


the ordinary appearance whether by
change in color, size or height, increase
in yield, early maturity, resistance to
pests and diseases or tolerance to
drought, flooding, acid soils, salinity and
high temperatures, among others and
make it a desirable item for collection in
a private garden or mass propagation for
commercialization to improve the
livelihood of Filipino Farmers.

Mutation plant breeding has been


practiced in the Philippines for so many
years now and there are already several
mutant plants that have been developed
here. We have what is called “atomic
rice” the first mutant by radiation
mutation breeding. It's a breed that has
better protein quality and better grain
yield for farmers. There's also a breed of
bunchy top virus-resistant banana that
was developed by the institute of plant
breeding

Because these traits came from within


the plant's genes and not introduced from
other organisms, mutant plants are NOT
genetically-modified organisms or
GMOs and for sure yields are not
radioactive.

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